Senegal: Country's Opposition Steps Up Calls for Election Reforms

22 January 2008

Dakar — With only four months to go before local and municipal elections due to take place on May 18, the government and the opposition in Senegal are yet to find a common ground on how to conduct this electoral process.

While the government seems happy with a system which ensured its victory the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2007, opposition parties, which rejected the results of the presidential polls and later boycotted the parliamentary vote, are not.

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